Naticus Maximus Cartographica, comes from the practice of scientists of the day creating a latinized version of their name that contains their first name and a last name referring to their trade. For example, Gerhard Mercator, the father of modern map making (ca 1500), takes a last name that refers to his trade as a "seller of crafts." He is known for the Mercator Projection, which is a common projection for many maps (terrestrial/stellar). Mine comes from the love of maps and geography.

1.29.2009

A person who read my article in ArcUser sent me this link to what the City of Redlands is doing. They are using Street View of the Google Map to assist them in identifying and locating street signs. Check my Subscribed to links on the right or click here:

1.15.2009

Well, the City is underway with the Urban Forest Services Tree Inventory. Davey Resources, the consultant on hand to complete the citywide inventory of city-managed trees, has been working for a month now and has about 10% complete.

In the meantime, I have been working on the back-end GIS data management infrastructure setting up the SDE transactional and publication environments using SDE Replication and Synchronization that will eventually hold the tree inventory data as well as developing some processes to create spatial SDE table views that will be used in the work order management side of things using Infor Enterprise Asset Management.

Just finished a Python script to create attribute domains out of the look up tables provided by Davey.